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Second Life: How are User Groups Doing?

2017/02/03 by Nalates Urriah

There is a page in the Second Life™ Wiki listing the official user groups. Currently there are four weekly meetings;

Server/Sim/Scripting – Simon Linden – Tuesday 12:00 – SLurl
Open Development – Oz Linden – Wednesday 07:00 – Oz’s Raft
Server Beta – Caleb Linden – Thursday 15:00 – SLurl (ADITI)
Content Creation – Vir Linden – Thursday 13:00 – Hippotropolis Campfire Circle

The Bento Development group has changed to the Content Creation group. There was another Content Creation/Mesh Import group that stopped meeting in 2014. The meeting transcripts for that old group are still available. They are not the same groups but, similar.

This week and next there are no Content Creation group meetings. The next meeting is February 17.

Currently the Content Creation group meeting in Hippotropolis is the most interesting. They are dealing with the challenges of creating Bento Content. As problems come up the Lindens look at ways to make fixes or changes and users work to figure out work-arounds and better methods for creation. Various Lindens attend the meetings.

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Second Life Bits 2017 w05

2017/02/02 by Nalates Urriah

Medhue Simoni is one of the better know modelers and animators in SL. He has a post in the SL Forum containing videos that show how to make your own LoD (Level of Detail) models.

See: How to make LODs / Levels of Detail

Second Life News Update 2017 w05

2017/02/01 by Nalates Urriah

The new package rolling out to the main grid’s RC channel has a fix that should make offline IMs and group notices a bit more reliable. That comes from Simon Linden. I didn’t see anything about it in the server version release notes.

There will be no Server/Scripting meeting next Tuesday (2/7). A Linden Lab meeting conflicts with the User Group time. Simon wasn’t giving us any information as to what the Linden meetings was about, other than it was NOT a feature summit. But, new features will likely be discussed at some point.

Second Life News 2017 w05

2017/01/31 by Nalates Urriah

Server

The main channel is getting a restart but, no new package.

Wednesday the RC channels will get a new package and be restarted.

The server changes are stated as:

Second Life Third-Party Dev News 2017 w04

2017/01/29 by Nalates Urriah

The Third-Party Developers meeting was last Friday. The video is here: Second Life: Third Party Viewer meeting (27January 2017). 54 minutes.

Following is my summary of the video.

There are 2 project viewers in Lab’s pipeline. They are not yet published as RC viewers. Soon.

Second Life Bento 2017 w04

2017/01/26 by Nalates Urriah

The Bento Project User Group has changed to the Bento Developers User Group. Discussion is about Bento problems being encountered.

I’m still a bit loopy recovering from pneumonia. I messed up the video of this meeting. Oops.

One of the problems is the BVH animation files. The SL viewer-server upload of BVH runs an animation optimization process. Movements smaller than a certain amount are removed. This is creating a problem for those animating the new facial bones. Small movements are needed for subtle facial expressions. The BVH process filters them out.